Warning - Diving is hard work!

The second week just started, but I can tell, that to be a customer at a dive center isn't comparable at all with working in one. 
I'm physically soooooooo exhausted. I'm a sporty person and three month before I started the Divemaster internship, i went at least two times a week in a gym to extend my condition, but we are swimming 400 metres, carrying a lot of heavy equipment around to the car, out of the car, in the boat, out of the boat in the car..................... 
I go to bed at around 8 pm with the sandman and fall asleep like a stone, but it's 100% worth the fun and experience!!!!!!

I stayed at the shop together with Sam and the rest of the interns went on a dive. I swam 400 metres in the morning what is definitely more fun than after two dives and lunch. I swim 400 metres in around 8 to 9 minutes, so can be pretty sure to pass the final swim test.

On the next day I went with Pete, Alice, Sam and the English customers, that were already on a couple of other dives with us, on a deep dive to a new dive site called El Delfin. 
We didn't set the anchor there, just rolled in the water and got picked up later by giving sign with a surface marker buoy, what I have never seen so far. 

This buoy is rolled together, so small and comfortable to carry around under water and as well attached to a reel so that you don't loose it. Pete filled the buoy with air of his regulator and it floated to the surface where it sticks out of the water, so that the boat guard can see it and other boat driver can also recognize that there are divers in the water. 

The second dive led us to the dive spot Pequene Valle, which was beautiful because of a huge fish school of approximately around 50 fishes that were sliding over the bottom of the ocean and rocks like in a beautiful studied performance. Apart from that I was still tired and exhausted.

A little bit more rested I started the next day. It is nice to see that all the interns are getting faster and faster with the daily duties like preparing the kit in the morning. Now we can more focus on things that have to do with actual diving practice.
I went on a shore dive this day with Melissa, Lydia who was leading her first dive and Dennis and Andreas. I brought my camera, what always makes me really excited because I love it to make photos and it is actually the second time that I practice with my underwaterbox. I made a couple of pictures that are really nice. 
My biggest problem under water is to stay steady when I want make a picture, because their is always a little bit of a drift that is moving you around, except when you are lying on a sand pool, but that might bring the problem that your visibility gets crappy because you stir up the sand. I am looking forward for more chances to bring my camera!

Lydia was leading both of the dives we did there. The second one even without Melissa and she did well and can be very proud of herself.
Without the guarding eyes of Melissa we even did a couple of fun pictures underwater..... "HELLO MELISSA :))))) " maybe shown on this page later :).

FINALLLLLLY a day off. But no time for actual rest, because I am still behind with my homework. I started reading the Open Water Manual and AdvancedManual as well, because my first two certifications are so long ago, that I have to refresh my knowledge. In combination with the ongoing education for the Rescue Diver and Divemaster it is so much more work, but on the other hand everything makes so much more sense as well and because of that more fun to learn and practice and experience!

Pete and Alice took me and Mahmoud on a navigation dive to Alien rock. We dived there before, but I have to admit that I have never spend actual thoughts about my orientation of this dive site so far, because I am still so busy with myself under water. So that was the dive we actually had to spend attention. 

Mahmoud and me separated our jobs under water. If you want make a map of a new dive site, you have to measure the different depth you are diving through, the brezels of your directions ( one of a divers standard equipments is a compass for orientation ) and the distances that you measure with your fin kicks. We shared the informations, but were drawing the maps both by ourselves and the results were.... quite surprising :). 
I am sorry that I couldn't make a picture *hihihi*.

On Tuesday Mahmoud and me had a day off again and catched up in the morning for the homeworks, that we got the evening before from Pete. We had to write down an emergency action plan for a special dive site, that includes the fastest way to get a dive victim to medical professionals, numbers to reach them and other medical centres that are more specialist in dive accidents and so on. I am looking forward to actually lead a dive on this site!!!

Back again and we were all together in the shop to practice our first response skills, including rescue breath and CPR on a unconscious victim and how to care for a person with bleeding injuries. 
We had a lot of fun simulating the different situations in role plays. I am still asking myself how Sandra alias Sam :) could actually appear in the dive shop with multiple bleedings after "hesheit" went water skiing in the marina ???????????

Today I felt so sick in the morning *sobsob* that I didn't go to the shop. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day!!!